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Chicago examiner monday Chicago may 2 1910 14 pages monday registered in d s patent office f^j â€” â€” r-l^mÂ»iawmÂ«Â«.Â»hi 1r u _â€” -- get cbat piano if ' bargains in new and second-hand r^jf pianos at reasonable terms are offered w j in the daily and sunday 17 j \ examiner wm flds lu price one cent delivered by carrier 30 cents per month w_f fmwllllhmr - "" kÂ«ua,,a _Â»-.^- j â– t - . , j y_a Chicago and vlclnlty probably |$)& i j showers monday tuesday partly i v \*? cloudy and colder brisk easterly l/j j " w ' nc ' s mpnday shifting to north l&jt jzst west tuesday *$Â§Â» vol viii no 1 1 3 a m 50,000 thrilled as sox win in fifteenth and cubs in ninth Chicago goes baseball wild when idols humble two champion teams in day victories mean much history-making struggles on south and west sides raise pennant hopes fifty thousand wildly excited persons cheering until fi'ty thousand throats seemed ready to burst from sheer joy fifty thousand persons roaring rioting ram pant rejoicing saw baseball history made in Chicago yesterday never in the history of the great amer ican national pastime have there been struggles more memorable more moment ous more bitterly contested and so fraught with that element which makes the blood of men and of women to say nothing of boys and girls leap the faster in their veins than those which were fought so gallantly on the west side and south side yesterday afternoon i iffy thousand persons about equally di vided between the two games saw the world's champion pirates the blood-thirsty end lighting crew from pittsburg humbled before the onslaught of their ancient and most deadly enemies the cubs on the west side grounds saw the dashing re lentless tigers champions of the american league and thrice contenders for world's championship honors put to rout by the veterans and the tyros in whom are placed the hopes of the loyal south side faus this year 50,000 point thumbs down in ancient rome men and women were wont to throng the amphitheaters to see the valiant gladiators battle to the death what need of gladiators when men and women can sec such contests as they wit nessed yesterday tho thumbs of every man of every wom an in those cheering roaring crowds were pointed downward yesterday afternoon as the four teams of athletes everything for gotten but tlie struggles battled for the winning runs as if their very lives de pended npon the outcome of the game no quarter was asked no quarter was given by a single man ou any of the four teams tint furnished the two games that made baseball history in Chicago yesterday over on the west side grounds when the fighting clawing cubs seemed hope lessly lieali-n that excited crowd saw fleet-footed artie hofmau pull up pant ing but safe at second base and then ! what a cheer rent the sabbath air horror as hofman falls a moment later the crowd saw need harn heavy of foot but sure ot eye swing his club at one of camnitz's swife curves they heard the well knewn and joyous eouud that comes when ball nnd bat con nect squarely they saw the ball flash on t line out between center held and right field they saw hofman waiting for noth ing tear for the plate and then horror of horrors they saw him stumble and call they watched the diminutive leach tear after the ball they saw him pick it up tbey saw him throw it straight as a die into the hands of the waiting gibson at the home plate and they saw hofman jinable to rise touched out by the catcher and in the ninth the crowd in gloom saw the mighty hans wagner beat out a lucky infield hit rush to second on mil ler's out and score a moment later on flynn'a hit with the run that appeared to mean certain defeat for the cubs and again just a moment later with two on imses two out and hope fading the crowd held its breath as steinfeldt vet eran that he is unmoved bv the terrific din swung at the ball they saw the sphere whiz into the crowd and they saw bchulte and chance joyfully scamper across the plate with the runs that were needed to win a glorious victory and then pandemonium broke loose 1 00,000 see games over city on the south side grounds the crowd saw en even more bitterly contested game they saw the youngsters the untried and the somewhat nervous youngsters contest very inch of ground with the hungry ferocious tigers from detroit they saw a contest that must always be referred to tvhen fans get together to discuss great baseball games that i have seen there were heroes white uniformed white bestockinged heroes on the south side last night and there were heroes the men who are counted upon as sure to bring another championship to Chicago iu the fall on the west side last night c.eat is the national game and every one of the fifty thousand or more men women and children who saw these mem orable games to Chicago yesterday will result of games that made baseball history for Chicago american league Chicago 4 detroit 3 fifteen innings national league Chicago : 2 pitlsburg 1 nine innings knox forgives and fetes son and bride secretary entertains young elopers in washington mansion mother aids reconciliation washington may 1.-the surrender of the secretary of state to his young son philander c knox jr has been made complete in the reception of the youthful lover and the college widow bride in the parental mansion on k street n w where they are house guests for the week end without parade or pomp the reconcilia tion between the bridegroom's parents and his bride was accomplished it is said that the overtures were insti gated by mrs knox whose favorite child young philander is although friends as sert that deep in the secretary's heart he rather admired the ardor and romantic fervor of his youngest born neither young mr knox nor his parents would give any statement or interview to night but the happy bridal couple and mrs knox took a long automobile drive to-day and all seemed in the best of spirits intimate friends of tip knox or as he is called by his schoolboy chums ignl from his flaming red hair say that his father has purchased a substantial interest in an automobile company for the enter prising youth meanwhile a belated honey moon now that the waters of matrimony are smoother sailing is being indulged in and after a short visit to washington several weeks will be spent at atlantic city by m r - knox and his bride c w van cleave is ill union labor foe and head of bnck stove & range co near death , i st louis may 1.-c w van cleave multi-millionaire president of the buck stove & range company and former pres ident of the national association of manu facturers is critically ill at his home here recovery is doubtful he was stricken with heart attack while preparing to at tend a convention of the citizens alliance at pittsburg three weeks ago as head of the buck stove & range company van cleave carried the war of the labor unions to the supreme court fighting the labor union boycott the legal proceedings de 1 velope into a contempt sentence against snmuel gompers who is himself reported ill iu st louis heart tested by phone doctors jou miles from pailent lliaunixe her ailment special cable to the examiner london may i a test of an invention shows it is possible for a doctor to diag ' nose heart trouble by telephone one hun dred miles away professor milne nnd ' four distinguished doctors on the isle of wight at 9 o'clock this evening listened over an ordinary telephone to the beat of a woman's heart in london the instru ment employed in london was a sterile scope with a telephone relay by which the i minute sounds were magnified aviator nearly frozen paris may i le blanc the french aviator attempted to cross the pyrenees n the balloon walhalla to-day he started from pau this morning and rose to a height of 2.500 metres in an attempt to escape a terrific snowstorm he failed to do this and descended at the french fron tier almost frozen hughes opposed fdr bench as trust ally league protesting appoint ment says monopolies elected him governor pending u s suits cited could not change friendship for corporations under fire is charge washington may i the american anti-trust league has petitioned the sen ate judiciary committee against the con firmation of governor hughes as a member of the supreme court on the ground that in several respects his appointment to the supreme court is highly improper and un safe for the best interests and welfare of the people of the united states it is now universally recognized by citizens of every station and every call ing says the protest that a grave crisis exists at this time in the conflict of interests between the great lawless com binations of interests known as trusts on one side and the people of the united states on the other we protest against the confirmation of charles e hughes for j the reason that no one familiar with mr i hughes public record can believe that ! his mental leanings are other than friendly to the purposes and plans of the men at i the head of the great trust conspiracies against the people which are now so men acing iu this country we protest against his confirmation for the reason that it is a matter of public record that many of rhe men of the great est power at the head of these trusts and who control the unlawful monopolies ln the necessaries of life as well as those persons who control the transporta tion trusts and the money trust were his active supporters and large contributors to the campaign funds used to elect mr hughes as governor of new york among tliese trust officials were those most prominent in the control of the to bacco trust the standard oil trust thei coal trust and the railroad trust win j are now on trial for their offenses against the laws of the united states and their j cases will be among the very first iich ; governor hughes will he called to decide if lie were confirmed by and with the ad vice and consent of the senate to sit an a ! justice of ibe supreme court ot the united states gen nord alexis is dead followers suspicion over pasiing of former president of hayti special cable to the examiner kingston jamaica may i general nord alexis formerly president of hayti died here after a brief illness early this morning the numerous other haytiens in exile here are greatly agitated for con siderable secrecy is thrown around general alexis death it is said that he was much affected by the news that it had been discovered that he had backed financially general antenor firmin's recent at tempt at a revolution in port au prince hayti 11 is followers demand that the cause of his death be investigated artist borrows owr work sued frederick webster portrait and miniature painter sought by process servers all a mistake he says his portrait of a friend sub ject to use for exhibition at any time he avers frederick webster a noted portrait and miniature artist of evanston and one whose recent work has been the subject of much comment at the art institute where it was exhibited is in trouble over a portrait mrs adolph kaerstner wife of adolph kaerstner a draughtsman living at 1065 winona street evanston has taken out a writ of replevin for a painting of herself done by webster she alleges that the artist borrowed uie portrait for purposes and has failed to return it all a mistake says webster the artist is a young man and each suc cessive portrait has shown much improve ment he painted a portrait of rnfus c dawes oue of evanston's best known citi zens and of mrs dawes that attracted such attention that charles g dawes commissioned webster to paint his portrait the kaerstner portrait was painted about a year ago webster was a frleud of the family and did the work at a small cost according to his story recently he asked mrs kaerstner for the loan of the work saying that he wanted it for au ex hibition he kept the picture three weeks said mr kaerstner last night and then re fused to return it 1 have the picture said webster last night and i intend to keep lt until mrs kaerstner signs an agreement to loan the painting to me whenever.l want it for ex hibition purposes that was the under standing when the picture was painted officers watched the webster studio in the university building all day sunday and will resume the watch again to-day in the hope of serving the writ autos collide at high speed women picked up senseless mrs 0 f jordan and daugh ter lyle have narrow es capes from death two women were rendered un conscious and several men thrown to the street when two touring cars col lided yesterday at woodlawn avenue and forty-ninth street an auto crashed into a street car at ellis ave nue and forty-seventh street the air tank under the street car exploded and frightened the passengers a girl was run down by a car going west in jackson boulevard it is feared her skull is fractured miss lyle jordan daughter nf o j jordan a railroad constructor 6747 euclid avenue was taken from the wreck of the jordan family automobile at woodlawn avenue and forty-ninth street yesterday morning unconscious and with her face bleeding from numerous cuts be side her wus her mother also unconscious for a time it was thought mother and daughter had been fatally injured both were found to be only slightly hurt how ever their escapes from instant death were almost miraculous two big touring cars one the jordan automobile the other belonging to de witt buchanan 1114 mccormick building col lided with terrific force nt woodlawn avenue end forty-ninth street so great was the force of tlie impact that both ma chines were overturned and left lying at the curb an almost inextricable mass of wreckage cars collide at high speed the jordan car was being driven by wil liam peasnau regularly employed as a j chauffeur in the buchanan car were mr buchanan with robert charles doglitt at llie steering wheel both cars were go ing nt a high rate of speed tlie jordan machine headed north on woodlawn and the buchanan car west on forty-ninth the latter machine took tlie corner with out slackening speed both chauffeurs saw the danger too late they swerved their cars and thus the force of the shock was broken somewhat all the occupants of both cars were thrown to the street the women screamed and then were uiot mrs jor dan and miss jordan were carried into a nearby house where they soon were re vived aside from the cuts on her face and a general shaking up miss jordan was unhurt her mother felt uo ill effects from the crash chauffeurs get hard falls 1 don't see how we escaped with our lives said miss jordan the machines came together with awful force i can remember nothing after that the two chauffeurs pitched headlong over one another when the cars struck j both getting hard falls _, i twelve auto ami '"_â€¢_â– itak miss lyle 7ordan who marvels at her escape in auto accident diagram showing how tig touring cars collided and picture of the icreck pastor gestures slips falls from his pulpit rev m f childs of humboldt park sprains arm as result of fervid motion leaning far over the rostrum to.em phasize a point in his fervid discourse the rev m v childs pastor of the hum boldt park free methodist church last night lost his balance and fell he arose and attempted to mount the rostrum once more to continue his sermon then ihe found that he had sustained a severe sprain of his right arm the minister was taken to his home 2203 north cali fornia avenue in a carriage mr childs has long been known to mem bers of his congregation as a vigorous ex pounder of the gospel his movements in the pulpit are energetic his discourse is always direct and to the point and it is always good old-fashioned methodist doc trine of the kind not so often heard now as formerly last evening mr childs was telling how the backsliders might be picked np and helped into a better life he started to illustrate tlie church service came to au abrupt ending after ihe accident to the minister dean of sculptors dead john liuii ada ns wnril so in l.nsi illness fiulnlies statue nkw york may 1 johu quincy adams ward dean ol american sculptors and oue tif the most nictnresque charac ters in american art died this morning at his home at the age of eighty years he wis ill eight mouths he had lust lin tsbed the last task of his long career as a sculptor a statue of hancock for the smith memorial in philadelphia tt will be sent to the bronze factory next week and will be unveiled iu the autumn al though ailing he iuslsted on finishing the hancock statue liesides his wife his only surviving relative is edgar melville ward a painter of this city who is in Chicago on business fire in new gas building flames discovered ou fifteenth floor slamloinc not working fire was discovered early this morning on tho fifteenth floor of the new people's gas light & coke company building on michigan avenue the building is only partially completed tlie blaze started in a pile f rubbish left by some workmen the stand pipe in the building was in piit-e but was uo la woritrng order ami tin areni tu i j t lulrurulty lu getting w:rto u t;i i.1 -. . .-'- sÂ«m .- â€¢ was iit gaynor mum on his reason for rejecting an investigation new york mayor fails to ex plain why he did not let aid go into merits of co halan's bill for 48,000 nor has he told how warrant got back to chamberlain nor why he deceived pijb . lie by concealing the facts toid hearers at banquet that he had nothing to do with matter while records and officials show that he did new york may i cohalan presenti ! a bill of 53,000 to the city for services as special counsel to the attorney gen i eral instead of its being audited by the at 1 lorney general who was in a position te i know the character and value of the serr i ices tlie hill was put through the comp ; t roller's office j before the bill reached the comptroller ' 0.000 was lopped off as excessive i an attempt was made to get the bill through in the hurry and confusion of the '. last day of tlie mcclellan administration , the outgoging comptroller relying lon hie reports of bis subordinates at the personal solicitation of cohalan ordered a warrant drawn on the city treasury lu favor of cohalan for j548.000 in the fore : noon of friday december 31 the warrant was signed by assistant deputy comptroller smith and sent to | i l>e office of mayor mcclellan | mayor must approve the comptroller signature is net i*t 1 ficieut to justify ibe withdrawal of money from the city treasury under the charter the warrant must also be approved by i the mayor and the city chamberlain in â– order to relieve them of manual labor the i charter permits a clerk or deputy to sign when empowered to do so in writing mayor mcclellan's deputy clerk j t curtin signed the cohalan warrant without calling it to mayor mcclellan's attention and sent the warrant to city chamber lain martin who received it about 3 p m december 31 half an hour later mayor mcclellan had his attentiou called to tha fact that the warrant hud passed through his office and had gone to the city cham berlain mayor mcclellan cabled from italy sat urday : as tho amount seemed excessive for the work alleged to have been performed i directed martin to secure the warrant in the finance department and return it to me iu the rush of leaving office i had no time to investigate and directed the chief clerk in the mayor's office to hold up the warrant and call my successor's attention to it immediately after january l the chief clerk held up the warrant as ordered by mayor mcclellan and it was left for mayor gaynor to investigate prendergast learns of bill james j martin remained in office as city chamberlain until late in the after noon of january 3 when he was succeeded by mayor gaynor's appointee and personal connsel charles h hyde on the morning of junuary 1 city cham berlain martin as the official custodian of the city's funds informed comptroller prendergast who had jnst been sworn in of the attempt to put this warrant through and comptroller prendergast told chamber lain martin that he was going to taik to the mayor about lt about 1 o'clock on january 1 comptroller prendergast went to the mayor's office and told mayor gaynor that mayor mcclellan having discovered that the warrant had been signed by his office had recalled lt from the city chamberlain and that the bill was for services in connection with the disputed franchise tax cases mayor gaynor said to comptroller pren dergast we must be very careful about passing large bills to lawyers in these mat ters if you had not told me about this i suppose the matter would have gone right through in the ordinary course it was very nice of you to speak of this to me what ought to be done about it comptroller prendergast replied to quote his own language i told him that if he wanted to remrn the warrant to the comp troller's office i would be very gi.ah td make a report to him upon it no report asked for mayor gaynor did not return : :.-â€¢ warrant lo the comptroller's office ;. â– investiga_j tion i "-â– the i oinprroller to :,:>:_â– a reporl to tlpon i an l never - i_h to the ' jh three days later to wit january i yjfl tin having tinned over the city ' fl lain's office to hyde into in he re,-od^m afternoon the cohalan warrant un sel^b from mayor gaynor's it.v chamberlain's office signed by hyde's deputy walsh am was paid tlie warrant could not have been cashed without the f i of both the mayor's office and of the city k'uamberlnin's office a m flÃŸk t^k - â– --. i _^_^_^_.- 1 '- ! continued on mm o ft k cclumr Chicago examiner ..... 104.20 columns gained Chicago tribune 1 03.40 columns lost that is the display advertising record for the month of april which proves once more that home circulation counts for nineteen consecutive months the Chicago examiner has shown larger gains in adver tising than has any of its morning and sunday contemporaries the examiner's gain in display advertising during the year 1909 was the largest simi lar gain ever recorded by a Chicago newspaper in january febuary march and again in april of the present year the examiner has outstripped its nearest contemporary at the ratio of two to one or better here are the figures for april 1910 showing gains and losses in display advertising by all the Chicago morning and sunday newspapers as compared with april 1909 daily examiner gained 22.67 columns daily tribune lost 99.32 columns daily record-herald lost 111.69 columns daily inter ocean lost 55.30 columns sunday examiner gained 81.53 columns sunday tribune lost 4.08 columns sunday record-herald lost 9.43 columns sunday inter ocean gained 7.22 columns including both daily and sunday editions examiner gained 104.20 columns tribune lcst 103.40 columns record-herald lost 121.12 columns inter ocean lost 48.08 columns these figures show that the tribune lost on an average over three columns of display advertising each day during the month of april â€” the record-herald lost on an average four columns each day â€” the inter ocean lost on an average over a column and a half a day ; and the examiner during the same period facing the same conditions gained on an average of over three columns of display advertising each day during the entire month these figures prove that discriminating business men realize that the newspaper with a larger home circulation than all of its morning contemporaries combined is the newspaper that gives them paying results home circulation counts

Chicago examiner monday Chicago may 2 1910 14 pages monday registered in d s patent office f^j â€” â€” r-l^mÂ»iawmÂ«Â«.Â»hi 1r u _â€” -- get cbat piano if ' bargains in new and second-hand r^jf pianos at reasonable terms are offered w j in the daily and sunday 17 j \ examiner wm flds lu price one cent delivered by carrier 30 cents per month w_f fmwllllhmr - "" kÂ«ua,,a _Â»-.^- j â– t - . , j y_a Chicago and vlclnlty probably |$)& i j showers monday tuesday partly i v \*? cloudy and colder brisk easterly l/j j " w ' nc ' s mpnday shifting to north l&jt jzst west tuesday *$Â§Â» vol viii no 1 1 3 a m 50,000 thrilled as sox win in fifteenth and cubs in ninth Chicago goes baseball wild when idols humble two champion teams in day victories mean much history-making struggles on south and west sides raise pennant hopes fifty thousand wildly excited persons cheering until fi'ty thousand throats seemed ready to burst from sheer joy fifty thousand persons roaring rioting ram pant rejoicing saw baseball history made in Chicago yesterday never in the history of the great amer ican national pastime have there been struggles more memorable more moment ous more bitterly contested and so fraught with that element which makes the blood of men and of women to say nothing of boys and girls leap the faster in their veins than those which were fought so gallantly on the west side and south side yesterday afternoon i iffy thousand persons about equally di vided between the two games saw the world's champion pirates the blood-thirsty end lighting crew from pittsburg humbled before the onslaught of their ancient and most deadly enemies the cubs on the west side grounds saw the dashing re lentless tigers champions of the american league and thrice contenders for world's championship honors put to rout by the veterans and the tyros in whom are placed the hopes of the loyal south side faus this year 50,000 point thumbs down in ancient rome men and women were wont to throng the amphitheaters to see the valiant gladiators battle to the death what need of gladiators when men and women can sec such contests as they wit nessed yesterday tho thumbs of every man of every wom an in those cheering roaring crowds were pointed downward yesterday afternoon as the four teams of athletes everything for gotten but tlie struggles battled for the winning runs as if their very lives de pended npon the outcome of the game no quarter was asked no quarter was given by a single man ou any of the four teams tint furnished the two games that made baseball history in Chicago yesterday over on the west side grounds when the fighting clawing cubs seemed hope lessly lieali-n that excited crowd saw fleet-footed artie hofmau pull up pant ing but safe at second base and then ! what a cheer rent the sabbath air horror as hofman falls a moment later the crowd saw need harn heavy of foot but sure ot eye swing his club at one of camnitz's swife curves they heard the well knewn and joyous eouud that comes when ball nnd bat con nect squarely they saw the ball flash on t line out between center held and right field they saw hofman waiting for noth ing tear for the plate and then horror of horrors they saw him stumble and call they watched the diminutive leach tear after the ball they saw him pick it up tbey saw him throw it straight as a die into the hands of the waiting gibson at the home plate and they saw hofman jinable to rise touched out by the catcher and in the ninth the crowd in gloom saw the mighty hans wagner beat out a lucky infield hit rush to second on mil ler's out and score a moment later on flynn'a hit with the run that appeared to mean certain defeat for the cubs and again just a moment later with two on imses two out and hope fading the crowd held its breath as steinfeldt vet eran that he is unmoved bv the terrific din swung at the ball they saw the sphere whiz into the crowd and they saw bchulte and chance joyfully scamper across the plate with the runs that were needed to win a glorious victory and then pandemonium broke loose 1 00,000 see games over city on the south side grounds the crowd saw en even more bitterly contested game they saw the youngsters the untried and the somewhat nervous youngsters contest very inch of ground with the hungry ferocious tigers from detroit they saw a contest that must always be referred to tvhen fans get together to discuss great baseball games that i have seen there were heroes white uniformed white bestockinged heroes on the south side last night and there were heroes the men who are counted upon as sure to bring another championship to Chicago iu the fall on the west side last night c.eat is the national game and every one of the fifty thousand or more men women and children who saw these mem orable games to Chicago yesterday will result of games that made baseball history for Chicago american league Chicago 4 detroit 3 fifteen innings national league Chicago : 2 pitlsburg 1 nine innings knox forgives and fetes son and bride secretary entertains young elopers in washington mansion mother aids reconciliation washington may 1.-the surrender of the secretary of state to his young son philander c knox jr has been made complete in the reception of the youthful lover and the college widow bride in the parental mansion on k street n w where they are house guests for the week end without parade or pomp the reconcilia tion between the bridegroom's parents and his bride was accomplished it is said that the overtures were insti gated by mrs knox whose favorite child young philander is although friends as sert that deep in the secretary's heart he rather admired the ardor and romantic fervor of his youngest born neither young mr knox nor his parents would give any statement or interview to night but the happy bridal couple and mrs knox took a long automobile drive to-day and all seemed in the best of spirits intimate friends of tip knox or as he is called by his schoolboy chums ignl from his flaming red hair say that his father has purchased a substantial interest in an automobile company for the enter prising youth meanwhile a belated honey moon now that the waters of matrimony are smoother sailing is being indulged in and after a short visit to washington several weeks will be spent at atlantic city by m r - knox and his bride c w van cleave is ill union labor foe and head of bnck stove & range co near death , i st louis may 1.-c w van cleave multi-millionaire president of the buck stove & range company and former pres ident of the national association of manu facturers is critically ill at his home here recovery is doubtful he was stricken with heart attack while preparing to at tend a convention of the citizens alliance at pittsburg three weeks ago as head of the buck stove & range company van cleave carried the war of the labor unions to the supreme court fighting the labor union boycott the legal proceedings de 1 velope into a contempt sentence against snmuel gompers who is himself reported ill iu st louis heart tested by phone doctors jou miles from pailent lliaunixe her ailment special cable to the examiner london may i a test of an invention shows it is possible for a doctor to diag ' nose heart trouble by telephone one hun dred miles away professor milne nnd ' four distinguished doctors on the isle of wight at 9 o'clock this evening listened over an ordinary telephone to the beat of a woman's heart in london the instru ment employed in london was a sterile scope with a telephone relay by which the i minute sounds were magnified aviator nearly frozen paris may i le blanc the french aviator attempted to cross the pyrenees n the balloon walhalla to-day he started from pau this morning and rose to a height of 2.500 metres in an attempt to escape a terrific snowstorm he failed to do this and descended at the french fron tier almost frozen hughes opposed fdr bench as trust ally league protesting appoint ment says monopolies elected him governor pending u s suits cited could not change friendship for corporations under fire is charge washington may i the american anti-trust league has petitioned the sen ate judiciary committee against the con firmation of governor hughes as a member of the supreme court on the ground that in several respects his appointment to the supreme court is highly improper and un safe for the best interests and welfare of the people of the united states it is now universally recognized by citizens of every station and every call ing says the protest that a grave crisis exists at this time in the conflict of interests between the great lawless com binations of interests known as trusts on one side and the people of the united states on the other we protest against the confirmation of charles e hughes for j the reason that no one familiar with mr i hughes public record can believe that ! his mental leanings are other than friendly to the purposes and plans of the men at i the head of the great trust conspiracies against the people which are now so men acing iu this country we protest against his confirmation for the reason that it is a matter of public record that many of rhe men of the great est power at the head of these trusts and who control the unlawful monopolies ln the necessaries of life as well as those persons who control the transporta tion trusts and the money trust were his active supporters and large contributors to the campaign funds used to elect mr hughes as governor of new york among tliese trust officials were those most prominent in the control of the to bacco trust the standard oil trust thei coal trust and the railroad trust win j are now on trial for their offenses against the laws of the united states and their j cases will be among the very first iich ; governor hughes will he called to decide if lie were confirmed by and with the ad vice and consent of the senate to sit an a ! justice of ibe supreme court ot the united states gen nord alexis is dead followers suspicion over pasiing of former president of hayti special cable to the examiner kingston jamaica may i general nord alexis formerly president of hayti died here after a brief illness early this morning the numerous other haytiens in exile here are greatly agitated for con siderable secrecy is thrown around general alexis death it is said that he was much affected by the news that it had been discovered that he had backed financially general antenor firmin's recent at tempt at a revolution in port au prince hayti 11 is followers demand that the cause of his death be investigated artist borrows owr work sued frederick webster portrait and miniature painter sought by process servers all a mistake he says his portrait of a friend sub ject to use for exhibition at any time he avers frederick webster a noted portrait and miniature artist of evanston and one whose recent work has been the subject of much comment at the art institute where it was exhibited is in trouble over a portrait mrs adolph kaerstner wife of adolph kaerstner a draughtsman living at 1065 winona street evanston has taken out a writ of replevin for a painting of herself done by webster she alleges that the artist borrowed uie portrait for purposes and has failed to return it all a mistake says webster the artist is a young man and each suc cessive portrait has shown much improve ment he painted a portrait of rnfus c dawes oue of evanston's best known citi zens and of mrs dawes that attracted such attention that charles g dawes commissioned webster to paint his portrait the kaerstner portrait was painted about a year ago webster was a frleud of the family and did the work at a small cost according to his story recently he asked mrs kaerstner for the loan of the work saying that he wanted it for au ex hibition he kept the picture three weeks said mr kaerstner last night and then re fused to return it 1 have the picture said webster last night and i intend to keep lt until mrs kaerstner signs an agreement to loan the painting to me whenever.l want it for ex hibition purposes that was the under standing when the picture was painted officers watched the webster studio in the university building all day sunday and will resume the watch again to-day in the hope of serving the writ autos collide at high speed women picked up senseless mrs 0 f jordan and daugh ter lyle have narrow es capes from death two women were rendered un conscious and several men thrown to the street when two touring cars col lided yesterday at woodlawn avenue and forty-ninth street an auto crashed into a street car at ellis ave nue and forty-seventh street the air tank under the street car exploded and frightened the passengers a girl was run down by a car going west in jackson boulevard it is feared her skull is fractured miss lyle jordan daughter nf o j jordan a railroad constructor 6747 euclid avenue was taken from the wreck of the jordan family automobile at woodlawn avenue and forty-ninth street yesterday morning unconscious and with her face bleeding from numerous cuts be side her wus her mother also unconscious for a time it was thought mother and daughter had been fatally injured both were found to be only slightly hurt how ever their escapes from instant death were almost miraculous two big touring cars one the jordan automobile the other belonging to de witt buchanan 1114 mccormick building col lided with terrific force nt woodlawn avenue end forty-ninth street so great was the force of tlie impact that both ma chines were overturned and left lying at the curb an almost inextricable mass of wreckage cars collide at high speed the jordan car was being driven by wil liam peasnau regularly employed as a j chauffeur in the buchanan car were mr buchanan with robert charles doglitt at llie steering wheel both cars were go ing nt a high rate of speed tlie jordan machine headed north on woodlawn and the buchanan car west on forty-ninth the latter machine took tlie corner with out slackening speed both chauffeurs saw the danger too late they swerved their cars and thus the force of the shock was broken somewhat all the occupants of both cars were thrown to the street the women screamed and then were uiot mrs jor dan and miss jordan were carried into a nearby house where they soon were re vived aside from the cuts on her face and a general shaking up miss jordan was unhurt her mother felt uo ill effects from the crash chauffeurs get hard falls 1 don't see how we escaped with our lives said miss jordan the machines came together with awful force i can remember nothing after that the two chauffeurs pitched headlong over one another when the cars struck j both getting hard falls _, i twelve auto ami '"_â€¢_â– itak miss lyle 7ordan who marvels at her escape in auto accident diagram showing how tig touring cars collided and picture of the icreck pastor gestures slips falls from his pulpit rev m f childs of humboldt park sprains arm as result of fervid motion leaning far over the rostrum to.em phasize a point in his fervid discourse the rev m v childs pastor of the hum boldt park free methodist church last night lost his balance and fell he arose and attempted to mount the rostrum once more to continue his sermon then ihe found that he had sustained a severe sprain of his right arm the minister was taken to his home 2203 north cali fornia avenue in a carriage mr childs has long been known to mem bers of his congregation as a vigorous ex pounder of the gospel his movements in the pulpit are energetic his discourse is always direct and to the point and it is always good old-fashioned methodist doc trine of the kind not so often heard now as formerly last evening mr childs was telling how the backsliders might be picked np and helped into a better life he started to illustrate tlie church service came to au abrupt ending after ihe accident to the minister dean of sculptors dead john liuii ada ns wnril so in l.nsi illness fiulnlies statue nkw york may 1 johu quincy adams ward dean ol american sculptors and oue tif the most nictnresque charac ters in american art died this morning at his home at the age of eighty years he wis ill eight mouths he had lust lin tsbed the last task of his long career as a sculptor a statue of hancock for the smith memorial in philadelphia tt will be sent to the bronze factory next week and will be unveiled iu the autumn al though ailing he iuslsted on finishing the hancock statue liesides his wife his only surviving relative is edgar melville ward a painter of this city who is in Chicago on business fire in new gas building flames discovered ou fifteenth floor slamloinc not working fire was discovered early this morning on tho fifteenth floor of the new people's gas light & coke company building on michigan avenue the building is only partially completed tlie blaze started in a pile f rubbish left by some workmen the stand pipe in the building was in piit-e but was uo la woritrng order ami tin areni tu i j t lulrurulty lu getting w:rto u t;i i.1 -. . .-'- sÂ«m .- â€¢ was iit gaynor mum on his reason for rejecting an investigation new york mayor fails to ex plain why he did not let aid go into merits of co halan's bill for 48,000 nor has he told how warrant got back to chamberlain nor why he deceived pijb . lie by concealing the facts toid hearers at banquet that he had nothing to do with matter while records and officials show that he did new york may i cohalan presenti ! a bill of 53,000 to the city for services as special counsel to the attorney gen i eral instead of its being audited by the at 1 lorney general who was in a position te i know the character and value of the serr i ices tlie hill was put through the comp ; t roller's office j before the bill reached the comptroller ' 0.000 was lopped off as excessive i an attempt was made to get the bill through in the hurry and confusion of the '. last day of tlie mcclellan administration , the outgoging comptroller relying lon hie reports of bis subordinates at the personal solicitation of cohalan ordered a warrant drawn on the city treasury lu favor of cohalan for j548.000 in the fore : noon of friday december 31 the warrant was signed by assistant deputy comptroller smith and sent to | i l>e office of mayor mcclellan | mayor must approve the comptroller signature is net i*t 1 ficieut to justify ibe withdrawal of money from the city treasury under the charter the warrant must also be approved by i the mayor and the city chamberlain in â– order to relieve them of manual labor the i charter permits a clerk or deputy to sign when empowered to do so in writing mayor mcclellan's deputy clerk j t curtin signed the cohalan warrant without calling it to mayor mcclellan's attention and sent the warrant to city chamber lain martin who received it about 3 p m december 31 half an hour later mayor mcclellan had his attentiou called to tha fact that the warrant hud passed through his office and had gone to the city cham berlain mayor mcclellan cabled from italy sat urday : as tho amount seemed excessive for the work alleged to have been performed i directed martin to secure the warrant in the finance department and return it to me iu the rush of leaving office i had no time to investigate and directed the chief clerk in the mayor's office to hold up the warrant and call my successor's attention to it immediately after january l the chief clerk held up the warrant as ordered by mayor mcclellan and it was left for mayor gaynor to investigate prendergast learns of bill james j martin remained in office as city chamberlain until late in the after noon of january 3 when he was succeeded by mayor gaynor's appointee and personal connsel charles h hyde on the morning of junuary 1 city cham berlain martin as the official custodian of the city's funds informed comptroller prendergast who had jnst been sworn in of the attempt to put this warrant through and comptroller prendergast told chamber lain martin that he was going to taik to the mayor about lt about 1 o'clock on january 1 comptroller prendergast went to the mayor's office and told mayor gaynor that mayor mcclellan having discovered that the warrant had been signed by his office had recalled lt from the city chamberlain and that the bill was for services in connection with the disputed franchise tax cases mayor gaynor said to comptroller pren dergast we must be very careful about passing large bills to lawyers in these mat ters if you had not told me about this i suppose the matter would have gone right through in the ordinary course it was very nice of you to speak of this to me what ought to be done about it comptroller prendergast replied to quote his own language i told him that if he wanted to remrn the warrant to the comp troller's office i would be very gi.ah td make a report to him upon it no report asked for mayor gaynor did not return : :.-â€¢ warrant lo the comptroller's office ;. â– investiga_j tion i "-â– the i oinprroller to :,:>:_â– a reporl to tlpon i an l never - i_h to the ' jh three days later to wit january i yjfl tin having tinned over the city ' fl lain's office to hyde into in he re,-od^m afternoon the cohalan warrant un sel^b from mayor gaynor's it.v chamberlain's office signed by hyde's deputy walsh am was paid tlie warrant could not have been cashed without the f i of both the mayor's office and of the city k'uamberlnin's office a m flÃŸk t^k - â– --. i _^_^_^_.- 1 '- ! continued on mm o ft k cclumr Chicago examiner ..... 104.20 columns gained Chicago tribune 1 03.40 columns lost that is the display advertising record for the month of april which proves once more that home circulation counts for nineteen consecutive months the Chicago examiner has shown larger gains in adver tising than has any of its morning and sunday contemporaries the examiner's gain in display advertising during the year 1909 was the largest simi lar gain ever recorded by a Chicago newspaper in january febuary march and again in april of the present year the examiner has outstripped its nearest contemporary at the ratio of two to one or better here are the figures for april 1910 showing gains and losses in display advertising by all the Chicago morning and sunday newspapers as compared with april 1909 daily examiner gained 22.67 columns daily tribune lost 99.32 columns daily record-herald lost 111.69 columns daily inter ocean lost 55.30 columns sunday examiner gained 81.53 columns sunday tribune lost 4.08 columns sunday record-herald lost 9.43 columns sunday inter ocean gained 7.22 columns including both daily and sunday editions examiner gained 104.20 columns tribune lcst 103.40 columns record-herald lost 121.12 columns inter ocean lost 48.08 columns these figures show that the tribune lost on an average over three columns of display advertising each day during the month of april â€” the record-herald lost on an average four columns each day â€” the inter ocean lost on an average over a column and a half a day ; and the examiner during the same period facing the same conditions gained on an average of over three columns of display advertising each day during the entire month these figures prove that discriminating business men realize that the newspaper with a larger home circulation than all of its morning contemporaries combined is the newspaper that gives them paying results home circulation counts